John Bell, O.S.A. ( d1541) was a bishop in the late fifteenth and the first decades of the sixteenth century. He was appointed

Bishop of Mayo The Bishop of Mayo was an episcopal title which took its name after Mayo in Ireland. After the Reformation, the title was briefly used by the Church of Ireland until 1559 and by the Roman Catholic Church until 1631. With each denomination, the ...

in 1493, but also worked as a

suffragan bishop A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations. In the Anglican Communion, a suffragan bishop is a bishop who is subordinate to a metropolitan bishop or diocesan bishop (bishop ordinary) and so is not normally jurisdiction ...

for the

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...

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15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland Bishops of Mayo 1541 deaths {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub